Sports car driver is in shock after bricks crash

A car driver and her two passengers were almost buried under a heap of concrete bricks that fell off a moving truck yesterday morning.

Had the truck stopped inches closer we would have been buried under bricks

They escaped unhurt, albeit suffering from shock, after the bricks came crashing down on the bonnet of the woman’s sports car.

Marvic Stafrace was driving up It-Telgħa t’Alla w’Ommu towards Naxxar when the truck in front of them, loaded with bricks, slowed down and started making “worrying” noises.

Concerned, Ms Stafrace, who was driving an open-topped Cynos, immediately came to a halt some seven feet away from the lorry – but she was too late. As its driver tried to manoeuvre the sharp bend, the truck lost traction and slipped backwards.

The car’s occupants, including Ms Stafrace’s wheelchair-bound father, looked on in shock as the driver tried to brake.

The truck mercifully stopped sliding just a foot away from the car’s bonnet but its tailgate flew open and showered the car with concrete bricks, shattering the windscreen.

Ms Stafrace said the tailgate was not secured with pins.

The driver managed to stop the truck just in time, she added.

“I’m sure that had the truck stopped inches closer, we would have been buried under bricks. There was no time to get my father out of the car,” she said.